Campus Clips: New Time Warner Cable SportsNet Scoops Up Some Mountain West Live-Game Rights

Time Warner Cable’s new sports network, Time Warner Cable SportsNet, will be the home for San Diego State, UNLV and Fresno State football and basketball games this season. The network launches Oct. 1 and will broadcast live 12 Mountain West Conference football games and at least 24 Mountain West basketball games in 2012-13. Time Warner Cable SportsNet’s college football schedule begins with Fresno State at Colorado State on Saturday, Oct. 6. Much of the Mountain West’s live game rights were left without a home following the abrupt shutdown of the MountainWest Sports Network in May…

…Regional sports network, SNY will feature multi-platform coverage of the Big East this football season. 350+ hours of BIG EAST football will be highlighted by up to 33 live games. SNY will also feature the BIG EAST ‘Game of the Week,’ which will be wrapped with in-depth pre game shows (presented by Citi), halftime shows and post game shows. SNY will kick-off its all-access football pass to the BIG EAST Conference on Thursday at 7 p.m. with its UConn Football Preview Show. That will be followed by the UConn Huskies-UMass Minutemen football game at 7:30 p.m…

…FOX Sports Media Group will carry more than a dozen Big 12 college football matchups this season. The games will air on FX, FOX Sports Networks (FSN), FOX Sports Southwest (FSSW) and FOX College Sports (FCS). Thre schedule begins on Saturday at noon on FX when West Virginia – in their first game as a Big 12 member – play host to Marshall…

…ESPN’s 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) men’s college basketball regular-season schedule will feature 106 conference games across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU as well as the ESPN3 simulcasts of syndicated matchups. The schedule is highlighted by the return of the weekly ACC Sunday Night Basketball franchise on ESPNU and ACC action on ESPN’s Super Tuesday, Wednesday Night Hoops, Thursday Night Showcase and Saturdays.ESPN and the ACC are beginning a new 15-year agreement for exclusive rights to every conference game. Through a sublicense arrangement with ESPN, Raycom Sports will continue its long-standing position as the syndication home of ACC content for over-the-air and regional cable network distribution. ESPN3 will simulcast every game that is offered locally via syndication…

…The Idaho State Board of Education voted to let the University of Idaho compete in the FCS as an independent, due to the mass defections from the WAC that will leave the team without enough schools to play. The school is also in discussions to join the Big Sky Conference for men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, track and other Vandal teams…